Overview
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Explore a 44-minute conference talk from the 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) that delves into Project SERVFAIL, a community-driven initiative to revolutionize DNS infrastructure management. Learn how a social media joke evolved into a serious effort to create an open-source alternative to commercial nameservers, complete with comprehensive documentation and automated DNSSEC deployments. Discover the challenges encountered in DNS infrastructure development, from horror stories to upstream negligence, while maintaining a lighthearted approach. Understand how the team developed custom solutions, including a zone edit website, to address the stagnation in nameserver provider development over the past 15 years. Gain insights into the future possibilities of DNS management through this free, open-source project that combines technical excellence with a distinctly non-enterprise attitude.
Syllabus
38C3 - we made a globally distributed DNS network for shits and giggles
Taught by
media.ccc.de